To the extent it is still a viable political entity, Rush says nominating McCain or Huckabee will be the coup de grace. Sounds about right.
The recent mother of all immigration-reform discussions has gotten a bit unwieldy so I am going to try and move it up to the front page.
Our good buddy Billy astutely observed “I believe that most undocumented workers would apply for residency if there was a feasible path for them. This would reduce the number of illegals to a more manageable number for ICE to deal with.”
That crashing sound you hear is from our dozens of readers smacking themselves in their collective foreheads with sufficient force to knock themselves onto their respective office floors.
Climbing back into my chair, I would add that if we re-classified DUI from a “crime” to a “social faux pas,” it would reduce the number of incidents to a more manageable number for our overworked traffic cops to deal with. In fact, we could make a massive dent in violent crime if we simply redefined all felonies as misdemeanors.
In the Senate’s last “comprehensive” immigration reform attempt, the logistics of providing the “feasible path” required a cut off point at which those attempting to enter the country legally would need to be put on hold to accommodate the millions of illegals cutting in line. If you think about it for a second, you will realize there is no other way to create the “path,” so while the “Z-visa” program was blatantly unfair, it was very logical.
In the Senate bill, anyone who had submitted their application to immigrate legally after May 1, 2005 – in other words, the chumps – would have gone to the back of the USCIS line in order to allow the illegals to be processed.
Leaving aside the ethical and economic issues of whether it is a good idea to grant citizenship to tens of millions of border-crashers, my question to our esteemed compassionate, “Christian” readers is: Bearing in mind that USCIS has a backlog of over three million applications for legal immigration, if the U.S. government were to propose another attempt at a path to citizenship for illegal aliens, when would YOU place the cut off date at which legal applicants would be put on hold in order for the illegals to be processed?
I’m not at the correct computer so I cannot link sites but I will give you times and locations. Sorry.
Going backwards (in more ways than one) today’s Washington Post on the front page talks about an ILLEGAL immigrant who worried about graduating from Loudoun County public schools because he would loose his refuge. Refuge? But it seems that parents and counselors helped him out by having him return to Mexico for a year and speeding his visa to re-enter the U.S. Now he can afford to go to college with in-state tuition. How nice. The article also states that there are about 65,000 illegal high school graduates a year. Hummm.
Thursday, January 10 has an article in the Loudoun Easterner that states the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors retracted their efforts to pursue allowing illegals from getting business permits and going after the businesses that hire illegals. The state will handle it. It is a federal problem. We have other issues of more importance (i.e. the roads that are crowded, the schools that are crowded) and we need to find out how to pay for things with a depressed housing market. After all, we don’t coax business to Loudoun to off-set taxes of homeowners. We coax business so that we have places to go for school field trips. Loudoun is alot more affluent than Fairfax and the residences can afford anything thrown at them. We have deep pockets you know!
On this same thursday an article on the front page of the Washington Post talks about what Kaine will do with the issue of illegal immigration. The state is proposing new laws againest illegals and pushing the point to the federal level. “Kaine stressed that the state has taken steps to enforce laws and that he will fight proposals that seem mean-spirited”. What is mean spirited about enforcing the law? Also he states that “One in 10 Virginians was born outside the United States, Kaine said, and foreign companies created 2,000 jobs in the state.” We created more jobs overseas then what is created here. And those born outside the U.S. seem to mostly congregate in No. Va.
When the Democrats get into office, things change. Not for the better. With the articles above, socialism is festering right along. Do you think a Democratic president will be any different or just a tremendous boost for the cause.
As Kaine states, “6 percent of Virginians have serious mental illness and that one in four have a diagnosed mental illness.” Welcome to the state of mentals.
Settling in to watch some football before flying home tomorrow, and as if anyone cares here are my thoughts …
You all watching the Snow Bowl in Green Bay? That is some extreme precipitation. At this rate there will be five inches on the ground by the time the fourth quarter ends. Green Bay once again seems to have the weather on its side. It will be interesting to see just what Seattle QB Matt Hasselbeck is made of. Personally, I wanted to see Seattle win because I think Dallas has a much better chance against them – BUT ….
Dallas, as much as I love them, will have their hands full tomorrow. Beating the same team three times in one season is not highly likely. This would apply to the absolute best team playing the absolute worst team, let alone two that are evenly matched….
And on that note, I think the Jaguars are going to be very hard for the Patriots to beat tonight. The Eagles, Ravens and Colts helped sketch the game plan to beat New England; in part, run the ball on offense and pressure Brady on defense. Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio is a smart guy and will have that team ready with the right game plan.
UPDATE: My wife has posted a guessing game about where we are this week.
UPDATE II: Congrats, Packers. That was not much of a game. It begs the question of was the one team great or did the other team blow donkey. I’m not King Solomon, so don’t ask me. It’s hard not to root for Brett Favre – if the Giants win tomorrow I will have to say, “Sorry, Gints fans, but I am rooting for Green Bay.”
UPDATE III: NE vs Jacksonville, end of second quarter: 14-14 says to me, the Patriots are mortal. Be very afraid, Patriots.
UPDATE IV: If the Cowboys get their act together enough to beat the Giants tomorrow, they will win the Super Bowl. Here’s why I say this: Dallas has enough talent to beat anyone, but they have shown an inclination to play to the level of their competition. The Giants are a really good team, and at this point in the season they will be Dallas’ final test.
UPDATE V: Hey, the Jaguars look ok. At 4:04 left in the third quarter they just lost a TD on a dropped pass, but these things happen. Their quarterback, David Garrard, has to be one of the major inspirational success stories of modern sports, so how can you not root for this guy – especially against the Superman/New York Yankee/Little-Lord-Fauntleroy Tom Brady? (RE: that “roughing” penalty at 1:50 in the third).
UPDATE VI: So much for interest and romanticism – Green Bay and New England, the favorites, won. Bleh.
It’s always easy, and important, to tweak our liberal friends. Simply because they are wrong on so many counts, they need to be so reminded.
Currently, there is no better way to do so than by promoting Jonah Goldberg’s book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler’s National Socialism and Mussolini’s Fascism.
Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term “National socialism”). They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs. They confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public education. They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life. The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control. They loathed the free market, provided generous pensions for the elderly, and maintained a strict racial quota system in their universities—where campus speech codes were all the rage. The Nazis led the world in organic farming and alternative medicine. Hitler was a strict vegetarian, and Himmler was an animal rights activist.
Despite the title of this post, it really is not such a tall order to drive liberals crazy. Start talking about the Civil War, and most of them go berserk within minutes. There are a number of other topics that cause liberals to totally freak, to the extent that further civilized conversation is not possible. You know the topics.
The Huckster got a temporary bump on immigration enforcement the other day when he appeared to claim he would end the travesty of birthright citizenship, which allows anyone who can make it across the US border to have a child who will be recognized as a US citizen.
Shortly thereafter, Huck retracted:
“I do not support an amendment to the Constitution that would prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens. I have no intention of supporting a constitutional amendment to deny birthright citizenship,” Mr. Huckabee said in a statement posted on his campaign Web site.
“Birthright citizenship” is one of the most egregious examples of U.S. legislation gone awry. This provision of the US code was not meant to allow foreigners to skip across the border and have babies who would be immediately recognized as US citizens. Any country who did such a thing would have been categorized as insane.
Huckabee, in supporting such a terrible policy, lines up with the enemies of US citizens.
So all is NOT lost ….
But we must admit, there is an awful lot of voting left to be done and that Feb 5 mess is going to be a complete crap shoot. The candidates can’t give all those states anything like the quality time Iowa and New Hampshire just got, so there is going to be the real possibility that the top three Democrats (and top four or five Republicans, for that matter) each get some wins.
On the plus side, there are a lot of powerful media players who really want Hillary as the nominee, so last night’s victory will be played up as the second coming … maybe even the covers of Time and Newsweek adorning the supermarket check out displays in California, New York and Florida for a solid week. We can hope.
Of course, if John Edwards manages to win in South Carolina next week he’ll have the angry nutso wing of the party screaming his accolades right up until Feb 5 and then Hillary would be yesterday’s news … well, Edwards would probably not be a bad second choice since we’re not going to get Dennis Kucinich, right?
